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Chapter 6. Red Hat Network Website
Ungrouped Systems — Each registered system must be a member of at least one system group.
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The number of ungrouped systems refers to the number of systems that are not members of any
system group.
You can return to this page by clicking Your RHN on the left navigation bar.
6.3.1. Your Account
The Your Account page under the Your RHN category allows you to modify your personal infor-
mation, as well as set some RHN preferences. To modify any information on the Details tab or the
Addresses tab, change the information and click the Update button on the page.
If you want to change your Red Hat Network password (the one used to log into RHN and redhat.com)
click the Details tab on the Your Account page and replace the asterisks in the Password and Pass-
word Confirmation text fields with your new password. You will not see your password as you type
it for security reasons. Click Update to change your password.
The email address on the Details tab is the address Red Hat Network sends email notifications to, if
you have selected to receive Errata Alert email for your systems under the Preferences tab. To change
your preferred email address, replace in on the Details page and click Update.
The Preferences tab allows you to configure Red Hat Network options including:
Email notifications — Determine whether you want to receive email every time an Errata Alert is
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applicable to one or more systems in your RHN account.
Default page size — Maximum number of items that will appear in a list on a single page. If more
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items are in the list, clicking the Next button will display the next group of items. This preferences
applies to system lists, Errata lists, package lists, and so on.
Time Zone — Set your time zone so that scheduled actions are scheduled according to the time in
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your time zone.
6.3.2. Entitlements
To use all of the features of RHN, your systems must be entitled — subscribed to a RHN subscription
service. Every user receives one free Red Hat Network Basic entitlement subscription.
Use the Entitlement Manager to configure which systems are entitled to which service offerings.
If you need to purchase additional entitlements, go to Purchase Info => Buy Now from the left
navigation bar.
There are two types of entitlements, or service offerings:
Basic — should be used to manage a single Red Hat Linux system. It includes Errata Alerts, Sched-
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uled Errata Updates, Package Installation, and the Red Hat Update Agent.
Enterprise — should be used to manage multiple systems with multiple system administrators. In
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addition to the features of the Basic offering, it includes system group management, user manage-
ment, and the System Set Manager interface to quickly perform actions on multiple systems.
6.3.2.1. Service Entitlements
The Service Entitlements tab allows you to view and change the entitlements for your registered
systems. To change the entitlement for a system, select the entitlement from the pulldown menu and
click Update Entitlements.
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